Books from England
720 popular english books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from England.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Bajo el culo del sapo by Tibor Fischer ES
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Estar «bajo el culo del sapo» equivale para los húngaros a nuestro vulgar «estar jodido». Y jodidos van a estar los húngaros Gyuri y Pataki en vísperas del año 1956. Hasta entonces las cosas no les habían ido del todo mal. Amigos inseparables desde 1944, cuando, aún jóvenes soldados, se dedicaban a saquear lo que los nazis no se habían llevado, viajan por toda la nación formando parte de un equipo de baloncesto con tres únicos objetivos: los placeres del sexo, la holgazanería y la subversión de las normas del estado comunista. En su desaforada picaresca conoceremos a una galería de personajes ... continue
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Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope EN
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The Penguin English Library Edition of Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!' Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope. Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved ... continue
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Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
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Honey the genetically engineered bear takes a ride in Jimmy the Martian's head and starts a revolution on the Red Planet.
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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by Nesbit, Edith EN
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Short adaptations of twenty of Shakespeare's plays, including familiar quotations and a brief biography of Shakespeare.
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Bede's Life of St Cuthbert by Bede EN
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'At this time, Cuthbert was keeping watch over flocks of sheep on some remote mountains. One night he was staying awake, praying through the night, with his companions sleeping beside him. Suddenly he saw a light streaming down from heaven, breaking through the darkness. In the light were choirs of angels coming down to earth, and after taking away a soul that was full of light, they returned to their heavenly country...' Written only a few years after the death of Cuthbert himself, Bede's Life is the definitive biography of the North's favourite saint. With introduction and notes.
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Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
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From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of the DOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered “Bioforms” have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System. The end of the world has been and gone. There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Rather scores of storms, droughts and floods; dozens of vicious, selfish regional conflicts that only destroyed what could no longer be rebuilt. No single finishing stroke for Earth's great global human society, but you can still blee... continue
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Beowulf is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films ... continue
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Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel EN
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A novel from the author of Giving Up the Ghost and A Place of Greater Safety.
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Bingo's Run by James A. Levine EN
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A tale set against the backdrop of Kenya's poverty-stricken slums and luxury resorts follows the experiences of a young drug runner who makes deliveries to a reclusive artist before his witness of murder leads to his adoption by a woman who tests his sense of morality.
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks EN
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Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic asA Farewell to Armsand as sensuous asThe English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love,Birdsongis a novel t... continue